Hello all,

I'm writing a program for Mac OS X in objective-c and whatnot but I thought that it would be really cool if I could use perl to format the output. Basically the program works with XML data and I would like Perl bit to be able to take the XML file and do some formatting stuff. For example, a plugin could take some XML data that has a date and appointment info and make a nice html calendar. I know this kind of stuff has been done a million time before but I'm new to this perl thing and I'm having fun.

My question is: is there a prefered way parsing XML with perl? I'd imagine that there is some cpan module out there that would do it for me, but since this program needs to run on a untouched OSX box, using a cpan module isn't possible. My plan is to write a paser function that the plugins could share... At any rate, I just wanted to get some input before I spend a bunch of time working on this.

Thanks...

In reply to Using Perl for plugins... by dockthepod

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